Ornamental wood veneer



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N. A. HULL.

ORNAMENTAL WOOD VBNEER.

No. 471,552. Patented Mar. 29, 1892.

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Arm/mfr UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

,NICHOLAS A. HULL, OF PERU, INDIANA.

ORNAIVIENTAL WOOD VENEER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 471,552, dated March 29, 1892.

Application filed May 6, 1891. Serial No. 391,722. (No specimens.)

To all whom, it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, NICHOLAS A. HULL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Peru, in the county of Miami and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ornamental Wood Veneer, of which the following is a specification.

vMyinvention relates to an improved means for producing an ornamental Wood surface.

The object of myimprovement is primarily to produce for use, more particularly on curved surfaces, a Wood veneer carved in such a manner as to be readily conformed to a curved surface, and, secoudarily, to combine in one veneer a series of dierent patterns, so as to give to the surface ornamented a diversified appearance.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention.

Figure l is a plan of the primary form of my improved veneer. Fig. 2 represents a section of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan of the form shown in Fig. l when partly finished. Fig.

4 represents a cross-section of the same. Fig. v

5 is a plan of th-e secondary or complete form of the veneer. Fig. 6 represents a section of the same. Fig. 7 represents an elevation showing the complete veneer applied to the ornamentation of a `semi-cylindrical pilaster.

The veneering for this purpose is cut, preferably,about five thirty-seconds of an inch thick from fairly straight-grained wood. The veneer, having been cut in pieces of the required size, is passed under a suitable planerhead, which cuts in the upper surface of the veneer across the grain a series of grooves A, Figs. 3 and 4. These grooves extend through about one-half of the thickness of the Veneer and pass either directly or diagonally across the grain of the Wood and form the surface into a series ofalternate ridges and depressions B and A, leaving a thin undividedportion, which may be easily bent to `conform to a curved surface in the same manner as ordinary veneers. The grooves A are next intersected by a series of like grooves C, running substantially parallel with the grain of the Wood, thus forming on the surface of the veneer a series of raised blocks D. The veneer in either form may be easily bent over and secured to a curved surface, and has when finished the effect of carved Work.

For the purpose of making a more elabo# rate ornamentation, as in the pilaster shown in Fig. 7, I construct a veneer in the following manner: I joint carefully together edge to edge several pieces of the partly-finished veneer, as shown in Fig, 3, and finished veneer, as shown in Fig. l. -These pieces are arranged alternately or in any suitable pattern, and are then firmly glued to a stout piece of muslin, as E, Fig. 5. The several pieces thus mounted on the .backing of textile material form a composite veneer, which Inay be handled and applied as a Whole to the surface Which it is to ornament, Which surface may .be flat or curved, as shown in the drawings.

By using differentlcolored- Woods and differently-grooved sections a great variety of beautiful effects, heretofore only attainable by means of expensive hand-Work, may be obtained.

I claim as my invention- 1. As a new article of manufacture,a thick Wooden veneer having its surface scored With tWo series of intersecting grooves cut nearly I through the thickness of the material, so as to leave a thin integral portion adapted to be easily conformed to a curved surface in the manner of ordinary Wooden veneers.

2. As a new article of manufacture, the above-described composite veneer, consisting of separate pieces of thick Wooden veneer'cutV NICHOLAS A. HULL. Witnesses:

STEPHEN D. CARPENTER, JOHN CoYLE. 

